Global perspectives on the collapse of complex systems / edited by Jim A. Railey and Richard Martin Reycraft.

Publication:

Albuquerque, N.M. : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, c2008.

Series:

Anthropological papers (Maxwell Museum of Anthropology) ; no. 8.
Anthropological papers / Maxwell Museum of Anthropology ; no. 8

Format/Description:

Book
viii, 173 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Subjects:

Social archaeology.
Social systems -- History.
Social change -- History.
Social evolution.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Civilization, Ancient.
Prehistoric peoples.
Historic sites.
Excavations (Archaeology)

Contents:

The collapse of centers in late Iron Age Europe / Peter S. Wells
Collapse of civilization and the potential for multilinear evolution / Allen Zagarell
What happened in the Shang Dynasty? Collapse and florescence in the early Bronze Age of North-Central China / Jim A. Railey
Hillforts and the cycling of Maori chiefdoms : do good fences make good neighbors? / Mark W. Allen
Continuities and discontinuities in the Nasca culture, Río Grande de Nazca, South Coastal Peru / Helaine Silverman
Collapse as historical process : the Moche case / Garth Bawden
Sociopolitical collapse, niche adaptation, and ethnogenesis : prehistoric social responses to natural disaster in the far south coast of Peru / Richard Martin Reycraft
Collapse among Amerindian complex societies in Amazonia and the insular Caribbean : endogenous or exogenous factors? / James B. Petersen ... [et al.]
Contemplating Cahokia's collapse / John E. Kelly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Contributor:

Railey, Jimmy A., 1956-
Reycraft, Richard Martin.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780912535159
0912535156

OCLC:

233798870

Publisher Number:

99934996098

Web link:

The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page

Online:

Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008030125.html

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